公开(公告)号：US20240304543A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18668038

申请日：2024-05-17

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Kevin Lin ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Tristan Tronic ,  Michael Christenson ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Jiun-Ruey Chen ,  James M. Blackwell ,  Matthew Metz ,  Miriam Reshotko ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Manish Chandhok ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Elijah Karpov ,  Carl Naylor ,  Ramanan Chebiam

IPC: H01L23/522 ,  H01L21/3213 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/532

CPC classification number: H01L23/5226 ,  H01L21/32139 ,  H01L21/76819 ,  H01L21/7682 ,  H01L21/76843 ,  H01L23/5283 ,  H01L23/53209

Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.

公开(公告)号：US12080781B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17129867

申请日：2020-12-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Noriyuki Sato ,  Sarah Atanasov ,  Abhishek A. Sharma ,  Bernhard Sell ,  Chieh-Jen Ku ,  Elliot N. Tan ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Travis W. Lajoie ,  Van H. Le ,  Pei-Hua Wang ,  Jason Peck ,  Tobias Brown-Heft

IPC: H01L29/66 ,  H01L21/8234 ,  H01L27/092

CPC classification number: H01L29/66795 ,  H01L21/823431 ,  H01L27/0924

Abstract: Thin film transistors fabricated using a spacer as a fin are described. In an example, a method of forming a fin transistor structure includes patterning a plurality of backbone pillars on a semiconductor substrate. The method may then include conformally depositing a spacer layer over the plurality of backbone pillars and the semiconductor substrate. A spacer etch of the spacer layer is then performed to leave a sidewall of the spacer layer on a backbone pillar to form a fin of the fin transistor structure. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11996411B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US16913796

申请日：2020-06-26

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Cheng-Ying Huang ,  Gilbert Dewey ,  Anh Phan ,  Nicole K. Thomas ,  Urusa Alaan ,  Seung Hoon Sung ,  Christopher M. Neumann ,  Willy Rachmady ,  Patrick Morrow ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Richard E. Schenker ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Jack T. Kavalieros ,  Ehren Mannebach

IPC: H01L29/78 ,  H01L27/092 ,  H01L29/06 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/775 ,  H10B12/00

CPC classification number: H01L27/0924 ,  H01L29/0673 ,  H01L29/4232 ,  H01L29/775 ,  H01L29/7851 ,  H10B12/056

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include stacked forksheet transistor devices, and methods of fabricating stacked forksheet transistor devices. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a backbone. A first transistor device includes a first vertical stack of semiconductor channels adjacent to an edge of the backbone. A second transistor device includes a second vertical stack of semiconductor channels adjacent to the edge of the backbone. The second transistor device is stacked on the first transistor device.

公开(公告)号：US11955560B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US16914172

申请日：2020-06-26

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek A. Sharma ,  Arnab Sen Gupta ,  Travis W. LaJoie ,  Sarah Atanasov ,  Chieh-Jen Ku ,  Bernhard Sell ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Van Le ,  Matthew Metz ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Pei-Hua Wang

IPC: H01L29/66 ,  H01L27/22 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H10B61/00 ,  H10B63/00

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/66969 ,  H10B61/22 ,  H10B63/30

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) structure includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer on the gate electrode, a channel layer including a semiconductor material with a first polarity on the gate dielectric layer. The TFT structure also includes a multi-layer material stack on the channel layer, opposite the gate dielectric layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material over the multi-layer material stack and beyond a sidewall of the channel layer. The TFT structure further includes source and drain contacts through the interlayer dielectric material, and in contact with the channel layer, where the multi-layer material stack includes a barrier layer including oxygen and a metal in contact with the channel layer, where the barrier layer has a second polarity. A sealant layer is in contact with the barrier layer, where the sealant layer and the ILD have a different composition.

公开(公告)号：US20230091603A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17481501

申请日：2021-09-22

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Noriyuki Sato ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Kevin L. Lin ,  Van H. Le ,  Abhishek Anil Sharma

IPC: H01L35/32 ,  H01L27/16

Abstract: Techniques are provided for forming one or more thermoelectric devices integrated within a substrate of an integrated circuit. Backside substrate processing may be used to form adjacent portions of the substrate that are doped with alternating dopant types (e.g., n-type dopants alternating with p-type dopants). The substrate can then be etched to form pillars of the various n-type and p-type portions. Adjacent pillars of opposite dopant type can be electrically connected together via a conductive layer. Additionally, the top portions of adjacent pillars are connected together, and the bottom portions of a next pair of adjacent pillars being coupled together, in a repeating pattern to ensure that current flows through the length of each of the doped pillars. The flow of current through alternating n-type and p-type doped material creates a heat flux that transfers heat from one end of the integrated thermoelectric device to the other end.

公开(公告)号：US20220415904A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17355449

申请日：2021-06-23

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek A. Sharma ,  Wilfred Gomes ,  Van H. Le ,  Kimin Jun ,  Hui Jae Yoo

IPC: H01L27/108 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L25/00

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide power to backend memory of an IC device from the back side of the device. An example IC device with back-side power delivery for backend memory includes a frontend layer with a plurality of frontend components such as frontend transistors, a backend layer (that may include a plurality of layers) with backend memory (e.g., with one or more eDRAM arrays), and a back-side power delivery structure with a plurality of back-side interconnects electrically coupled to the backend memory, where the frontend layer is between the back-side power delivery structure and the backend layer.

公开(公告)号：US11437283B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US16355195

申请日：2019-03-15

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Aaron D. Lilak ,  Ehren Mannebach ,  Anh Phan ,  Richard E. Schenker ,  Stephanie A. Bojarski ,  Willy Rachmady ,  Patrick R. Morrow ,  Jeffery D. Bielefeld ,  Gilbert Dewey ,  Hui Jae Yoo

IPC: H01L21/8234 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/78 ,  H01L29/06 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L23/48

Abstract: Backside contact structures include etch selective materials to facilitate backside contact formation. An integrated circuit structure includes a frontside contact region, a device region below the frontside contact region, and a backside contact region below the device region. The device region includes a transistor. The backside contact region includes a first dielectric material under a source or drain region of the transistor, a second dielectric material laterally adjacent to the first dielectric material and under a gate structure of the transistor. A non-conductive spacer is between the first and second dielectric materials. The first and second dielectric materials are selectively etchable with respect to one another and the spacer. The backside contact region may include an interconnect feature that, for instance, passes through the first dielectric material and contacts a bottom side of the source/drain region, and/or passes through the second dielectric material and contacts the gate structure.

公开(公告)号：US20210408291A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16914172

申请日：2020-06-26

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek A. Sharma ,  Arnab Sen Gupta ,  Travis W. LaJoie ,  Sarah Atanasov ,  Chieh-Jen Ku ,  Bernhard Sell ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Van Le ,  Matthew Metz ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Pei-Hua Wang

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/22 ,  H01L27/24 ,  H01L29/66

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) structure includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer on the gate electrode, a channel layer including a semiconductor material with a first polarity on the gate dielectric layer. The TFT structure also includes a multi-layer material stack on the channel layer, opposite the gate dielectric layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material over the multi-layer material stack and beyond a sidewall of the channel layer. The TFT structure further includes source and drain contacts through the interlayer dielectric material, and in contact with the channel layer, where the multi-layer material stack includes a barrier layer including oxygen and a metal in contact with the channel layer, where the barrier layer has a second polarity. A sealant layer is in contact with the barrier layer, where the sealant layer and the ILD have a different composition.

公开(公告)号：US20210407907A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16911879

申请日：2020-06-25

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Hui Jae Yoo ,  Kevin L. Lin

IPC: H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L21/311 ,  H01L21/32 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: Integrated circuit metallization lines having a planar top surface but different vertical heights, for example to control intra-layer resistance/capacitance of integrated circuit interconnect. A hardmask material layer may be inserted between two thicknesses of dielectric material that are over a via metallization. Following deposition of the hardmask material layer, trench openings may be patterned through the hardmask layer to define where line metallization will have a greater height. Following the deposition of a thickness of dielectric material over the hardmask material layer, a trench pattern may be etched through the uppermost thickness of dielectric material, exposing the hardmask material layer wherever the trench does not coincide with an opening in the hardmask material layer. The trench etch may be retarded where the hardmask material layer is exposed, resulting to trenches of differing depth. Trenches of differing depth may be filled with metallization and then planarized.

公开(公告)号：US20200006424A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16022564

申请日：2018-06-28

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Noriyuki Sato ,  Angeline Smith ,  Tanay Gosavi ,  Sasikanth Manipatruni ,  Kaan Oguz ,  Kevin O'Brien ,  Tofizur Rahman ,  Gary Allen ,  Atm G. Sarwar ,  Ian Young ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Christopher Weigand ,  Benjamin Buford

IPC: H01L27/22 ,  G11C11/16 ,  H01F10/32 ,  H01L43/02 ,  H01L43/12 ,  H01F41/34

Abstract: A spin orbit torque (SOT) memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device with one end coupled with a first electrode and an opposite end coupled with a second electrode including a spin orbit torque material. In an embodiment, a second electrode is coupled with the free magnet and coupled between a pair of interconnect line segments. The second electrode and the pair of interconnect line segments include a spin orbit torque material. The second electrode has a conductive path cross-section that is smaller than a cross section of the conductive path in at least one of the interconnect line segments.